Where Sicko Mode's weirdest moments came from
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- Tracing the roots of Jamaican dub music.
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"Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott was an unexpected chart-topper. It sounds more like three songs than one. Its disjointed, other-worldly effects, echos, and song structure are a far cry from the traditional pop songs we're used to, but it's in these off-kilter moments that we get glimpses of a musical culture and genre that was centered around sonic experimentation and innovation, and has influenced everything from punk, rock, and pop for nearly half a century: Jamaican dub.
Spotify playlist "Sicko dub mode" open.spotify.com/playlist/3EJ...
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Yep
PLEASE song at 6:50!
Doing the Lord's work here. Seriously, from a Jamaican well done. Thanks for the respect and proper research.
Vox what about band on the run by Paul McCartney
ticking time bomb for bankruptcy .
Did I just watch a 10 minute video based on a 5 second sample from Sicko Mode?
We watched it🤦🏾♂️
I think we did, and I enjoyed it!
Yeah am I am going to listen to dub now.
Yes
I stopped at 1:08 when I realized that my time was valuable.
Travis scott and producer: oh yea that sounds cool put that in.
Vox: *HOW THE UNIVERSE WAS PUT TOGETHER*
Exactly! They are overanalyzing it. Most of the stuff there are thing that just sounded nice. Not need to go to Jamaica to talk about a reverb and delay effect.
@@MikelOvalle But the video needed to be 10 minutes!
Mikel Ovalle yeah it was a bit of a reach, but still interesting. People also don’t give Jamaicans enough credit for their impact on music, especially hip hop.
@@MikelOvalle I'd say nah. This is literally just a history lesson on where these ideas used in the song came from. I highly doubt they're saying "yeah Travis Scott 100% listened to these artists' music and was straight influenced by them." The ideas that were presented in the song reflect on what artists in the past pioneered on. Most rock music is influenced by their origins, and then other genres are influenced on later generations molding sounds differently.
But it is perfect for the meme, lol.
Just like they did with animal farm in English
When you want to make a video about Jamaican music but need people to click the video
What's the problem with Jamaican music?
pablo markobar It’s exponentially less popular than Rap
Facts bro, half way in zI was like wait a min how tf does this relate to sicko mode until i read read the title again....
@@arkanandrei6127 problem is not enough people listen to it
Alejandro Cotilla it was worth it tho
“I wanna make a video on the history of Jamaican musically but specifically dub.”
“I mean that’s interesting, but no one will click on the video to watch it.”
“No don’t worry I’ll slap sicko mode at the start.”
“Perfect”
What's the problem with Jamaican music?
@@arkanandrei6127 nothing
@@arkanandrei6127 woosh
pablo markobar I think it’s just the public may not want to hear about this niche thing, so they slap a popular song to bait them into the subject
blue how is it bait when that spring echo literally sounds just like it came from the instrument they referenced?
Can we take a minute to appreciate how good the graphics are ?
no we cannot
It's starting to annoy me because they messed up on the soundboard sliders.
Xavier Blaze every video people do
No but we can watch the entire earworm playlist. It takes more than a minute
the graphics on the best lyricists of all time video and the kanye video are some of their best imo
Jesus earworm has to be the greatest thing to be produced by vox. Everything from the animation, the storytelling to the concepts.. its just perfect.
'Borders' is still pretty dang awesome as well!!
Don’t forget Strikethrough!
No hate on the comment, just gotta do something real quick. *It's*
Darkroom is really good
@@vladimirsacherer9793 this is youtube not a business email
Please don't ever stop Earworm!!! I learn so much and I love learning about music!!!
Yes! I love the focus on the development of new genres and it's causal relationship to technology and access to said technology. I new tidbits, but I had huge blind spots.
Amen
Bruh vox analyzing sicko mode.... We live in the best timeline
@Jane Doe agreed
Love the community reference
Our timeline got altered around 2016/2017 honestly. The only positives I see is in the entertainment we enjoy for example Social Media, Video Games, Content Creation, Movies, Music. Everything else has been pretty bad. Politics, Mass Shootings, Homeless Crisis, Immigration, Celebrity deaths, and the list will just keep on going :/
King Bradley
Abed!!
No we don't
the sound design and sound narrative choices of this video are extraordinary
bro exactly what i was thinkin even the visuals
It's a cultured video, for sure.
it is done by sound enginer not travis...
A better title for this would be something like: "From Soundsystems to Sicko Mode: How Dub Changed Popular Music"
They should hire you
Nice
Thesis
would you have clicked though?
Nobody:
Me, 10 minutes after watching this video: "You know King Tubby really changed game man"
yeesss 🤣🙌
@@pashadyne … but that was one of the points of the video…
The visuals in this are so whimsical and next level. Love the personification of the legends. Whoever the animator is, well done
Podenco, if I'm not mistaken.
Not sure if it exists, but an Earworm Spotify or CZcams playlist would be great to keep track of the great songs featured in each episode. Earworm is so good it could be its own channel, keep up the great work!
yes, please! I need this in my life!
she actually has a playlist both in youtube and spotify! in the description its the link to her youtube playlist and if you search her name in spotify you will find the playlists she uses to make the videos
Can we all take a second and appreciate the editing 😍
No
No
No
Yes
No
Wow, ska really came before reggae, papa Bruce was right all along.
ya, it went ska then rock steady then roots reggae
Someone has to show Bruce to bring it up on the comments show.
I knew I would find this comment. Papa Bruce’s influence is infinite.
B Is for Bruce, B is for Bska came before reggae
and calypso before all that
vox is that channel that has a 1 minute intro but still gets the viewers hooked
Bruce Greene was right all along! SKA CAME BEFORE REGGAE
and rock steady was before reggae too
I went to the comments just to say that 😂
JAMES: "Yeah, WE KNOW, you literally just said that! You saID "ska came before reggae, but did you know...?'"
[BRUCE: "THAT'S ALL I HAVE!!!!"]
I KNEW THERE WAS AT LEAST 1 FUNHAUS PERSON IN HERE
BRUH YOU BEAT ME TO IT. Honestly surprised to see fellow funhaus members here
As someone from the Caribbean, I appreciate not putting subtitles as if we're difficult to understand
amen to that
Sometimes it can be difficult for those who’s first language isn’t English
Bryn McDougald there are subtitles for the whole video if you need them, but they subtitle the Americans too
Thank you! People disrespect my mother so much when she comes see me in Europe its so upsetting
Man most Jamaicans i know can speak better English than me and never speak to me in a way i cant understand. But when y'all speak fast patois amongst each other it IS really hard to understand.
Is this about Travis Scott’s Sicko Mode or about dub music...
Luis Clavijo maybe read the description
Classic bait and switch...but I ain't mad at Vox for doing it!
Lol white boy mad the vid isn't about Travis Scott
Lol don't even know
You could have named the video "The birth of Dub"
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then again, these kids wouldn't click on that
That's sad.
That may be true but it’s not their fault lol. Times change.
@@treyvonsmith2349 it's their fault for not being curious about anything and everything.
Well it was the opposite for me. I was hesitant at first on why Earworm would do an episode on a done and dusted overplayed song. Glad I clicked anyway.
I would ima huge dubstep fan so I'd click
Earworm is one of the best series you've people ever produced.
Love dub music! When I was around 17 years old, there was a record shop in my town. I was a big Massive Attack fan, and at the time and saw a CD 'Massive attack vs Mad Professor'. The owner laughed and asked If I ever smoked. I said I did, he put the store sign to Closed and put on the CD and rolled one.
I listened to the whole CD and never realised how much dub I've already heard in my life. Massive Attack, Gorillaz, Skream (the whole Dubstep genre....duh), Madness. They all took inspiration out of dub.
It was obvious the store owner didn't care about making money, he cared about music and a year later the store was gone. Some really cool parts of my collection are from that store and I thank dub for a really good time :)
And I thank Earworm for these video's, the research and editing.
Music is easier to find than any other time in human history but sadly those personal connections to discovering new music aren't nearly as common. You take the bad with the good i suppose.
this is a really nice story!
I’m trying hard to refrain but the Jamaican in me is dying to drop some flags 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
NEEDS MORE
@Don Coogi go away
🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I see Vox Earworm I click immediately
I see children on the thumbnail I click
I see you are a simple man
one of the better segments for sure
@@anthonylam5945 Indeed
@@teriko865 True
I was excited for the video, then as soon as I realized you were going to talk about Dub I got incredibly excited. Thank you guys so much for highlighting the sonic innovation and complexity of a singular genre.
Jamaican music has so much more musical and cultural influence than people even realise. Good job Vox/Earworm for this one!
went off the deep end on this one 😅
I liked it before it became a meme
Now its the track which you skip from your playlist
Too real , hate when that happens
@@hasankh4n mo bamba was the same
yeezy worshipper, mo Bamba is the shittest song I've ever heard
aotero u It is pretty popular. Has been on top played songs for a while now.
@@aoterou It's a meme bro, it'd checkout Kusorare's version and tell me otherwise.
Amazing. I grew up in a household where my Jamaican father had a heavy rotation of reggae and dub, but I never fully appreciated dub until I watched this video. Thank you, Vox.
As if the information is not infinitely interesting enough, you just had to make the video visually amazing
This might just be the greatest thing Vox/Earworm has done. From a 5sec break on Sicko Mode to full Dub dealings feat. King Tubby & Channel One Soundsystem.
Makes me miss London, bless up the Village Underground crew (where Channel One plays)!
90210 has a better beatswitch up from Travis Scott change my mind.
BIG MAN TYRONE facts
Stargazing too
oh my dis side would like to know your location
BIG MAN TYRONE noone is going to change your mind here, actually most people here don't even know there are some other songs except for sicko mode
Stargazing >>>>>
Growing up in the middle of Africa , thinking about how distinct Jamaican music sounded .
So that's where that sound came from !? 📣🎖
little red Curious where in Africa? It’s a continent you know
Our people
@@user-mf4dd5rp8y central Africa
aroace what country
@@user-mf4dd5rp8y ghana (akan tribe) and Nigeria (igbo)
The history of Black music never ceases to amaze me... mainly because our story is rarely told as often.🎙🎚🎧📻💿✊🏿
"sicko mode is weird"
*laughs in death grips"
*laughs in 100 gecs
*laughs in the time signatures of the dance of eternity*
oh my goodness whoever doing the editing for this needs a raise
I didn’t expect this video to travel down this path. I’m grateful for the hipping me to this history of Jamaican dub music.
Each of these Earworm episodes is almost worth a PhD.
Incredible!
Vox: *put 5 seconds of sample song in the video*
CZcams copyright claim: I'm about to end this man whole career
This is the best thing I've ever seen.
Thanks Sean, and appreciate the support!
It sounds like the Gorillaz took influence from this.
Roberto Canales you bet
Their album Laika Come Home is a remix of the self-titled album in the style of dub
It was their original direction before Dan the Automator suggested a hip hop influenced direction.
I was just thinking this thinking about Space Monkiez
Title: where the weirdest sicko mode moments came from
Video: where one specific sicko mode moment came from
So guys dub is also the beginning of dubstep and riddim.
Trashy Channel I hear a lot of drum and bass in it to.
I hate the fact it became a meme. The meme was funny at the time but now I never want to listen to it
Yeah I thought too it (the memes) sounds TICKTOKy
@@dickymon4195 I never thought someone would call it "weird" as long as it's danceable it's okay to me
I’ve listened to the song b4, that’s not my point. I was trying to say the meme ruined the song a bit. It was also a bit overplayed like ransom or mo bamba idk
You always comment this on every «meme song».
@@vanaxuh I made the same comment memes ruin music sometimes
I love ear worm so much I’m always sad when the videos come to an end. The researchers, graphic artists, sound engineers, everyone involved in this series is amazing
you guys really know how to make informative videos while actually keeping things interesting, chapeau!
this video’s production quality and depth was amazing. this is exactly the type of content i want. also, i think i just found a new genre i like. thanks vox
I've learnt more about music culture from this than my music class.
Great way to get teens to click to something about the history of Jamaican dub (mention sicko mode) 🤘🏻😅
I freaking love these videos. Omg I'm so grateful for the work that you guys put up on this project. Thank you very much.
Thank you Estelle for making these videos. I love your dedication and in-depth research into music. You make me listen to music of all genres in a new way. Especially music that I have known and loved forever have become new and exciting in unexpected ways. 🙏🏼
You don't need "Sicko Mode" to get views when it clearly used 15 secs of it. Naming this Jamaican Dub would have equally have gained attention just because its VOX
It honestly wouldn't have.
@@Albert-xl3nx I clicked cause I like Vox, especially Vox Earworm. I couldn't really care less about either the song or Jamaican Dub, but I still enjoy Vox's videos.
I like the idea of showing people the history that came before their favourite songs and how music is just one long chain of inspiration. If that means going into the history of a whole genre based on a few seconds from Sicko Mode I think that's kinda genius! It teaches you more than just the history of dub, but how influential it is, and a more general point about how sound is reused, inspired, chopped and reimagined. It's kind of beautiful.
I feel like a better title for this video would be
"Sicko Mode's Jamaican Roots"
Thank you for covering one of my favorite genres of music! Earworm is the best Vox show.
The animation and descriptions of this series is art in itself. Love it.
Ya'll just don't know how certified Jillionaire is bless up to the legend
That's super neat it alsmost makes up for killing my hopes and dreams at the super bowl.
It wasn't even that bad tho. Y'all just ain't used to hip hop concerts.
I always learn such fascinating things from Earworm videos. Thank you! And the editing is top notch. 👌
I am IN LOVE with this series. I was working on a song, and I started to feel kind of bummed because it doesn’t sound like I want
But learning about how many different genres of music there are, and how much music has been made throughout the years, puts a smile on my face
Hey vox. I always pause while i watching an earworm episode because i also add them on my spotify likes. It might be easier if you got playlists for your episodes. I know you work very hard for those videos but we also have a chance to understand each epsiodes themes by listening songs on the go. Anyway i am deeply in love with you guys have a great one.
ITS LIT
Pop it, pop it, straight up!
I freaking love this series!!! Thanks Estelle!
Please never stop this series 😫😩😩😩😩 WE NEED MORE EPISODES
Vox: Let's talk about Sicko Mode.
Explains how echo and delay played an important role.
Tony Lancer nah I think you and 20 other people read that waaaay wrong literally go read the title....
The intro for me into dub was "Laika come home" by Gorillaz and spacemonkeyz really great album check it out.
amazing production, as always ;) keep up the good work
Estelle, I have an acolytic relationship with this video series and I can't thank you enough for bringing all these stories into this media and to my ears. THANK YOU
It was a really good song
We meet again 🥴
Oh hello there ray mak
*Everywhere I go, I see your face*
stop
@BoostSimon 💀👍🏼 ight
okay but the kk slider version of sicko mode is the best mode change my mind
This series is so good, please never stop
Such an amazing series. Keep it up!
Never thought in a million years I would hear a snippet of a song like Skylarking on a Vox video..
It's at 6:44 btw.
Big tune!!!! Lol
Been waiting for an upload 😍😍😍
Love this video, by far the best one yet!
Thank you so much, for this episode and every other episode.
What type of journalism do you cover?
Vox: yes
DONT LIE THIS WAS LIT WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT
The amount of research that you put on the videos is astonishing
This is such a well designed video! The graphics and illustrations are great!
Who tf thought this was a pop song?
Can we all acknowledge they made a video a about a Travis Scott song yet didn’t say Travis at all
It's really about history Jamaican dub. Travis scott was just a way to have viewers click.
AMAZING STUFF. I could have watched for hours!
Dude…I’m blown away…I had no idea that everything about the DJ that exists today came from Jamaica…I had no idea
Excellent research! Love the content!
Don't really care about sicko mode but the history of dub was very interesting
Video Title: "Where Sicko Mode's weirdest moments came from"
Real Content: "There's a low pitched vocal that echos in Sicko Mode, here's why"
this was fun to watch and to listen to, production on point, knowledge abstracted very appreciated. 10/10 will watch more
Thank you for bringing attention to often misunderstood and/or ignored electronic music genres. Dub takes me out of this world like few other music can. Love Dub- house, techno, bass-music and culture.
Travis Scott don’t even know this
In that sense, dub, vaporwave, and nightcore, despite having really different styles, have one big thing in common: the entire genre is essentially taking other songs and messing with it to create something new.
yeah! one could argue that all of those genres you've mentioned can be classified wholly under "plunderphonic", same with styles like sample-based hip hop
These videos keep getting better and better
I had forgotten what the video was about, but yesss dub music! I still learned. Cool video! :)
Vox! You should really make a video on the Amazon fires!! I'm from Latin America and even here there's practically no media coverage on the issue! People need to know what's happening here
I don’t go Sicko Mode, I go *Dicko Mode*
I love this channel. Keep up the great work.
this was such a good episode. I love this channel.
I witch this lady would spin-off on her own and just upload this stuff to her own channel
Jose Salinas you do realise she's probably just narrating right?
ethicoz pharma im pretty sure she did the research too, as well as the interviews, maybe the editing wasn't just her though.
saucy risi It wasn’t her at all im pretty sure
Why?
The Fantorangster she has a whole series (ear worm) and in most videos there's a small window at the end where the maker (her) gives a short commentary or bonus fact
So this is what the youth listen to. It’s pretty good.
How do you do fellow kids?
Thank you so much for this! Though the title didn't grab me, getting a short history lesson in dub was en pointe :)
Killing it as always. Go Earworm!